Edward

George
Seidensticker
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Edward George Seidensticker
was an American Japanologist
and expert on Heian period
literature, world-renowned for
his translation of "Genji
Monogatari" into English.
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Edward George Seidensticker (February 11, 1921 –

August 26, 2007) was a noted post-World War II
American scholar, historian, and preeminent
translator of classical and contemporary Japanese
literature. His English translation of the epic The Tale
of Genji, published in 1976, was especially well
received critically and is counted among the
preferred modern translations.
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Seidensticker won the National Book
Award in category Translation for his
edition of Kawabata's The Sound of
the Mountain
Translation genre
He also translated The Decay of the
Angel, the last volume of Yukio
Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy,
and several of Mishima's stories.
Seidensticker translated Jun'ichirō Its most famous translation The Tale
Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters and of Genji
Some Prefer Nettles and authored (Genji Monogatari)
important criticism on Tanizaki's place
in 20th-century Japanese literature.